99 Funny and Wise Hypocrisy Quotes To Help You Avoid Dishonesty

Hypocrisy is an insidious trap that can ensnare even the most well-intentioned people. It's easy to say one thing and do another, but living an authentic and principled life requires you to remain consistent and self-aware. Read these 99 hypocrisy quotes to learn more.

Hypocrisy is saying or preaching one thing but doing or believing something else entirely. It refers to a person's failure to live up to the standards or principles they profess to believe. In other words, it is a form of insincerity or deception where a person presents themselves in one way but behaves in a contradictory way.

There are several reasons why people become hypocrites. It could be because of fear of judgment or criticism from others, desire for acceptance, low self-esteem, as an act of self-preservation, and sometimes, social pressure.

Hypocrisy is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon; its causes can be internal and external. As you find the root cause to deal with it, read these 99 funny hypocrisy quotes.

Noam Chomsky's quote: "Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves." | Image: AmoDays

Funny and Sarcastic Quotes about Hypocrisy

"A hypocrite is a person who — but who isn't?" — Don Marquis

"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." ― William Hazlitt

"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." — Abraham Lincoln

"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it." — Minna Antrim

Don Marquis' quote: "A hypocrite is a person who — but who isn't?" | Image: AmoDays

"Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted." ― Walter Kirn

"I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles…" — Alan Jackson

"I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live." — David Guterson

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could." — William Hazlitt

Walter Kirn's quote: "Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted." | Image: AmoDays

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity." — Thomas Fuller

"Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy." — Criss Jami

"The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy." — Tim Minchin

Thomas Fuller's quote: "We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity." | Image: AmoDays

"Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together." — Scott Meyer

"Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, 'I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays, and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel.' That is hypocrisy." — Isrealmore Ayivor

"I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite." — Bo Burnham

"Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite." — Ben Carson

Scott Meyer's quote: "Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together." | Image: AmoDays

"Hypocrisy: noun. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else." — Shannon L. Alder

"People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most." — Shannon L. Alder

"Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it." — Jose Padilha

Hypocrisy Quotes You Might Find in Need

"Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite." — Paul Watson

"All of us have to prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise, the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best." — O. Henry

Robert Murray M'Cheyne's quote: "It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home." | Image: AmoDays

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." — Andre Gide

"Counting other people's sins does not make you saint." — Hussein Nishah

"It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite." — George Harrison

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." — Noel Coward

Andre Gide's quote: "The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." | Image: AmoDays

"Hypocrisy begins at home." — Janneker Lawrence Daniel

"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy." — Oscar Wilde

"Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." — Hannah Arendt

Frederik William Robertson's quote: "There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud and tyranny." | Image: AmoDays

"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite." — Charles Spurgeon

"Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks." — Shannon L. Alder

"People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the color of their cloaks, but the content of their words!" — Isrealmore Ayivor

"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything." — Criss Jami

Charles Spurgeon's quote: "Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite." | Image: AmoDays

"Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hypocrisy Quotes Full of Deep Thoughts

"Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue." — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!" — Tennessee Williams

"Hypocrites get offended by the truth." — Jess C Scott

"No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld's quote: "Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue." | Image: AmoDays

"The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets." — John Mark Green

"In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition." — Erwin McManus

"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy." — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging." — Alexander Theroux

John Mark Green's quote: "The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets." | Image: AmoDays

"I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate." — Agatha Christie

"For the highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not." — Plato

"How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word." — Margaret Atwood

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others." — Jose Emilio Pacheco

Agatha Christie's quote: "I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate." | Image: AmoDays

"The three kinds of people I dislike most are Gossips, Liars, and Hypocrites." — Carole Radziwill

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised." — Leo Tolstoy

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing." — Edmund Burke

"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud and tyranny." — Frederik William Robertson

Carole Radziwill's quote: "The three kinds of people I dislike most are Gossips, Liars, and Hypocrites." | Image: AmoDays

"Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy." — Michael Leunig

"The truth has become an insult." – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for a man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?" — Criss Jami

"Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo." — Ambrose Bierce

Michael Leunig's quote: "Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy." | Image: AmoDays

"Liberty is the right of every man, to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy." — Jose Marti

"It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home." — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face." — C. JoyBell C.

"Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know." — E Nesbitt

Jose Marti's quote: "Liberty is the right of every man, to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy." | Image: AmoDays

"Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not." — Lord Byron

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." — William Shakespeare

"Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves." — Noam Chomsky

"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all." — Milan Kundera

Lord Byron's quote: "Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not." | Image: AmoDays

"Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do." — Cristiano Ronaldo

"Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence." — Toba Beta

"And what sort of lives do these people, who post as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite." — Oscar Wilde

"Clean your finger before you point at my spots." — Benjamin Franklin

Cristiano Ronaldo's quote: "Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. | Image: AmoDays

"A humanitarian is always a hypocrite." — George Orwell

"The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses." — Al-Ghazali

"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud." ― Augustus Hare

George Orwell's quote: "A humanitarian is always a hypocrite." | Image: AmoDays

"Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!" — Denise Levertov

"Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal." — Dorothy L Sayers

"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy." ― Warren Wiersbe

"Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people." ― Vikrant Massey

Denise Levertov's quote: "Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!" | Image: AmoDays

"I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite." ― Cindy Sheehan

"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." — William Hazlitt

"Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry." — Julie Metz

"I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites." ― Mo Ibrahim

"Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me." — Christopher Fry

Cindy Sheehan's quote: "I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite." | Image: AmoDays

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." — Max Stirner

"The lamb misused breeds public strife and yet forgives the butcher's knife." — William Blake

"Having then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from their indifferentism." — Samuel Butler

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief." — Sigmund Freud

Max Stirner's quote: "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." | Image: AmoDays

To stop being a hypocrite, you must examine your moral code for contradictions. You have to accept your humanity and admit your mistakes. Put yourself in other people's shoes and stop making promises you can't keep.

In addition, try to live authentically, practice self-reflection, be open to feedback, and avoid passing judgment on others. These steps can minimize your risk of acting hypocritically and help you lead a more fulfilling life. Read these keep it real quotes once you are ready to embrace and honor your imperfect self.